"This book collects, for the first time in English translation, fifteen essays (plus an introduction) written on the same subject over twenty-four years (but mostly in the last twelve)"--Preface.
Introduction: Memory, Family, Identity in Early Modern Italy and Europe
Family Books in Florence : Evolution and Involution of a Genre
Books and Readings in Florence in the 15th Century : "Ricordanze" and the Reconstruction of Private Libraries
Memory of Historical Events in Florentine "Ricordanze" (14th-15th Century)
Domestic Devotion in Florentine "Ricordanze" (13th- 16th Century)
The Family Books of the Castellani
The Medici "Ricordi"
Collective Memory and Cultural Memory : The Family between Antiquity and the Early Modern Period
Family Memory in the Early Modern Age : The Case of Tuscany
The Evolution of Family Memory Models : Tuscan Family Books (16th-18th Century)
Family Memory in Florence in the Time of Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni
Collective and Individual Identity in Florence (16th-18th Century) : The Family Book of Gianni
Family Memory and Individual Memory : Florentine Private Diaries and Family Books of the Early Modern Period
The Edition of Tuscan Sources for Family History in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Is there a Main Road in the Study of Autobiography?
Memory and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe.
Memory, family, and self : Tuscan family books and other European egodocuments (14th-18th century) by Giovanni Ciappelli. ISBN 9789004266315. Published by Brill in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.